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<p style="text-align:justify;">The learning effects of task-based interaction is an emerging topic in the field of instructed pragmatics for ESL learners. Specifically, researchers are exploring the impact of different task features on pragmatics learning. This article reports a review of the extant research. First, the review aimed to identify specific task design and implementation characteristics that appeared to enhance learners’ use of pragmatic features during task performance. Inter alia, the review indicated greater benefits from tasks which learners completed collaboratively versus individually and tasks which presented learners with relatively complex versus relatively simple cognitive demands. Secondly, the review aimed to assess evidence of learning across this body of research. The review could not establish whether the enhanced pragmatic language use observed during task performance equated with long-term learning as very few studies included delayed post-tests, an obvious lacuna in the body of research to date.</p>

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Task Design Features and Pragmatics Learning: A Systematic Review of Recent Research

<p style="text-align:justify;">This paper identifies major strands of research interest in the ESP literature. Specifically, the review aims to highlight mainstay topics that have characterised research in this area as well as topics that are emerging in this field, or that have received rather limited research&nbsp; interest to date. Linguistic inquiry has been a major thrust of research endeavor, and this has largely been driven by the needs of ESP teachers for linguistic descriptions of specialist language use to inform the development of pedagogical descriptions of academic,&nbsp; workplace or professional English for use in instruction. The ESP literature is also rich in case studies of teaching that report practices in one setting. The review identifies a number of topics, such as learning ESP, ESP teaching practices across settings and ESP teacher education needs, which have received scant research interest. It is suggested that these are emerging avenues for research.</p>

ESP Research Directions: Enduring and Emerging Lines of Inquiry

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Guest-editors: 
Ana Bocanegra-Valle, PhD, University of Cadiz, Spain
Hassan Mohebbi, PhD, Independent Researcher, Turkey


Special Issue: Future Perspectives and Challenges of ESP/EAP. In Honor of Helen Basturkmen’s Contribution to ESP/EAP Research